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Apologies, but I can`t resist: I saw a news item earlier today - "Copenhagen climate summit borrows Dylan's voice" - that indicates that the COP 15 organizers (the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, to which Pres. George H.W. Bush & Congress...
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[Update: I copy at bottom a follow-up exchange I had on Bob`s thread with another reader - radio silence from Bob.] Bob Murphy has a new post up at his blog, " CBO Testimony Misleads on Cost of Cap-and-Trade ", that draws attention to a new blog post at the Institute of Energy Research that...
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On the heels of my post about Apple leaving the U.S. Chamber of Commerce , here are a few more links and excerpts for eager readers (who have been spared a longer post that vanished into the ether as pixie dust crashed Mozilla and my prior unsaved draft) (emphasis added). 1. The Chamber`s opaque policy...
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Tue, Oct 6 2009
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Filed under: carbon pricing, climate change, Exxon, chamber of commerce, Apple, Nike, Tom Donohue, USCAP, BICEP, CERES, NRDC
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Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson has done it again*, by proposing in a speech on October 1 in Washington, D.C. that the U.S. shelve cap-and-trade legislative approaches to managing greenhouse gas emissions in favor of direct carbon taxes that are rebated to consumers . Tillerson`s full speech is here ; the press...
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The coal- and utility-funded "free-market think tank" Institute of Energy Research has a just released another study that tells us the obvious about the regressive consequences of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill and the benefits likely to flow to its corporate supporters, while masking...
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Joe Romm has a post up at Climate Progress that is highly critical of the U.S. oil industry, his ire no doubt triggered by the news that the American Petroleum Institute (API) is coordinating a series of "Energy Citizen" rallies by oil industry employees that target U.S. Senators in 21 states...
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Margo Thorning, Chief Economist and SVP at the influential American Council for Capital Formation (and director of research for its tax and environmental policy think tank (ACCF Center for Policy Research) and managing director of its new international affiliate, the International Council for Capital...
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A little birdy told me this story yesterday, which I think I was the first to ”Tweet". ExxonMobil has announced a $600+ million venture with Craig Venter' s advance genomics firm to develop fuels from algae. An Exxon scientist noted: "the potential advantages and benefits of biofuel...
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Apparently Rob Bradley `s self-proclaimed "free-market" energy blog, "MasterResource", has experienced a recent increased flow of traffic, so Rob is busy patting himself on the back and spinning his blog to his new readers . But what`s the reason for the increased traffic? Is MasterResource...
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I received the following in an email from NASA climate scientist James Hansen (whom I`ve mentioned a number of times ), in connection with today`s New York Times Magazine article ( "The Civil Heretic" ) on Freeman Dyson , which is now making its way through the "skeptosphere". My...
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[Update: I`ve added more background on Exxon, "Malthusians" and productive engagement.] How has Rob Bradley showed his hand? By shutting down reasoned (if challenging) debate at his blog, in the face of comments that were certainly more "free market" than displayed by Rob himself...
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[Somehow most of my excerpts of Tillerson`s speech weren`t included in my first try; there`re here this time.] It may still seem novel to some, but Exxon Mobil Corporation began throwing its weight behind carbon pricing policies more than two years ago , Subsequently, Rex Tillerson, Exxon`s Chairman...
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[Note to first-time readers: the title is tongue-in-cheek.] I have previously blogged on libertarian, non-state approaches to climate change ; allow me to use this post to pull together for diligent readers various recent sources of opinion and information on carbon taxes - which are much more transparent...
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Fri, Jun 27 2008
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Filed under: hansen, AGW, carbon pricing, GAO, George Will, Mankiw, Peter Barnes, rebated tax, OMB, RAND, Hayward, Thoring, Ken Green, Exxon, Pizer, Shapiro, AEI, Royce, Lakoff, Lewis Hay, Riddle